Michelle Cahill is the author of The Accidental Cage, shortlisted in the 2007 Judith Wright Prize, and edited the transnational anthology Poetry Without Borders (Picaro, 2008). With Boey Kim Cheng, she co-founded and co-edits the on-line Asian-Australian literary journal Mascara. She has edited and mentored many emerging writers and taught writing workshops in Sydney and Canberra. Her work has appeared in Muse India, Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies, Drunken Boat, Asia Literary Review, Heat, Meanjin, Southerly, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Australian Poetry Centre, the CAL and ASA, she has read at the 2008 Sydney Writers’ Festival, the 2009 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival and the 2009 Mildura Writers’ Festival.
Her forthcoming collection, Vishvarupa, is themed around Hindu deitites. Riding Without Krishna is her fiction manuscript in progress. This year Michelle directed Metaphors of Space, a poetry and architecture event at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Michelle has sojourned in monasteries and ashrams in Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal and Bali, to practice yoga and vipassana meditation.
Michelle was highly commended in this year’s Blake Poetry Prize.
Michelle Cahill appears courtesy of the Australia Council.
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Michelle menyunting antologi trans-national Poetry Without Borders (Picaro, 2008). Dengan Boey Kim Cheng, dia mendirikan dan menyunting bersama jurnal kesusastraan on-line Asia-Australia yang bernama Mascara. Dia telah menyunting karya-karya dan menjadi mentor para penulis yang baru muncul dan mengajar dalam beberapa lokakarya di Sydeney dan Canberra. Karya-karyanya telah muncul di Muse India, Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies, Drunken Boat, Asia Literary Review, Heat, Meanjin, Southerly, dan Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Penerima dana bantuan dan keanggotaan dari Australian Poetry Centre, CAL dan ASA, dia telah tampil di Sydney Writers’ Festival tahun 2008, Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival tahun 2009, da Mildura Writers’ Festival tahun 2009.
Koleksi mendatangnya, Vishvarupa, bertemakan dewa-dewa Hindu. Riding Without Krishna, adalah naskah fiksinya yang sedang ditulis. Tahun ini Michelle menyutradarai Metaphors of Space, sebuah event puisi dan arsitektur di Sydney Writers’ Festival. Michelle telah menyinggahi dan berdiam di beberapa biara dan ashram di Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal dan Bali, untuk mempraktekkan yoga dan meditasi vipassana.
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